Farmworkers Rights

OregonLive.com: El Programa Hispano moves to bigger home - The Oregonian 2008-05-15

... immigrants bring when they come from another country." El Programa started in 1982, with one part-timer working with the Gresham area's farmworkers .

Tucson Citizen: Immigration reform: When there's no one to harvest the crops 2008-05-15

Because there is not a reliable supply of farmworkers , southern Arizona farmers are cutting back what they plant. Lower supply means higher demand - ...

Register Pajaronian: Farmworkers" journey brings author to town 2008-05-15

íHuman rights are violated constantly along the migrant circuit.ì Dr. Lopez will speak Friday at the United Presbyterian Church, 112 E. Beach St.

eTalkinghead: Ethanol's roadkill 2008-05-15

Last year, I wrote three articles saying that corn-ethanol production takes farmland out of food production, uses huge amounts of increasingly scarce water ...

International Herald Tribune: Burger King fires 2 after blog controversy 2008-05-14

He said farmworkers are paid better than many Burger King restaurant workers. The Immokalee coalition has long disputed Chidsey's asserti ...

RedOrbit: Kiwanis Club Seeks Talent Show Contestants 2008-05-14

Joan Gibson of Levant invites you to a public forum, "No Farms, No Food ," at 1 pm Wednesday, May 14, at Mystic Tie Grange in Kenduskeag.

Bradenton Herald: Migrants to learn organic growing 2008-05-10

Farmworkers , who have the agricultural know-how and a commitment to the work, will earn $10 per hour training in organic production, irrigati ...

Thought Leader: Zimbabwe: Bob"s reigning, blood"s pouring, the íOld Manì is snoring 2008-05-10

In addition there are reports of 40 000 farmworkers being displaced as well as the editors of a newspaper and trade union leaders being arrested ê- all ...

KGET 17: Farmworkers sleeping in a Shafter orchard 2008-05-10

Union officials said the grower should be held responsible and guarantee workers a place to sleep. Armando Elenes from the United Farm Workers ...

EyeOutForYou.com: Farmworkers living in orchard ordered to leave 2008-05-10

Armando Elenes, an organizer for the UFW says "due to the necessity of their situation the need for economic survival those are the risks they take but th ...

Washington Post: Zimbabwe's Terror 2008-05-09

The General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union says that as many as 40000 farmworkers and their families have been driven from their homes.

Peninsula On-line: 40000 displaced in Zimbabwe since poll day 2008-05-09

As the opposition alleged 30 supporters had now been killed and a union chief said 40000 farmworkers and their dependents made homeless, authorities played ...

RTE.ie: More journalists detained in Zimbabwe 2008-05-08

As the opposition alleged 30 supporters had now been killed and a union chief said 40000 farmworkers and their dependents made homeless, authorities played ...

Visalia Times-Delta: Nunez will try to revive farmworker union bill 2008-05-08

"We want to allow farmworkers to be able to vote for collective bargaining rights in a way that their employer does not influence how they vote," Nunez ...

Citizen: Reports of violence against Zim farmworkers widespread: Jag 2008-05-08

íThe focus by the international media on the white farmer has created a useful smokescreen for Mugabe behind which gross human rights violations can ...

Mail & Guardian Online: Pressure mounts on Zim amid violence 2008-05-08

As the opposition alleged that 30 supporters had now been killed and a union leader said 40 000 farmworkers and their dependents had been made homele ...

Earthtimes (press release): Zimbabwe army denies attacks as MDC claims six more dead - Summary 2008-05-08

A farmworkers ' union said Thursday that 40000 black farm workers had been chased off the land by Zanu-PF youth militia during a fresh spate of invasions ...

TopNews: Thousands of Zimbabwe farmworkers dispossessed by violence: union 2008-05-08

The MDC and rights groups have accused Zanu-PF of punishing people suspected of voting for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Africasia: 40000 displaced in Zimbabwe since polling: union 2008-05-08

She said about 400 of the farmworkers and their families are hiding in the nearby bush without access to food and medical attention.

OregonLive.com: • Oregon immigration protest draws 2500 to Capitol 5/1/2008, 5:45 ... - The Oregonian 2008-05-02

He said the bill missed the target, and described many immigrants as economic refugees of globalization and regional trade pacts with Latin America that ...

Traverse City Record Eagle: Other View: Fence won't make good neighbors 2008-05-02

Keeping out farmworkers , dishwashers and wait staff does little to make our country safer. If anything, it serves to drive up the price of food .

Long Beach Press-Telegram: Lewis Black is back with more rants 2008-05-02

Edward R. Murrow did a documentary in 1960 or '61 called "Harvest of Shame" (on migrant farmworkers ). I was 12. I was sitting there and my mind was blown.

www.harvestofhope.net